Idiom
big sleep
Meaning
Death.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old dog finally went to the big sleep.”
“The detective looked at the crime scene and realized the victim had taken the big sleep.”
“After a long and weary life, the philosopher finally succumbed to the big sleep, leaving behind a legacy of profound thought.”
Examples
simple
“The old dog finally went to the big sleep.”
contextual
“The detective looked at the crime scene and realized the victim had taken the big sleep.”
complex
“After a long and weary life, the philosopher finally succumbed to the big sleep, leaving behind a legacy of profound thought.”
Origin
Apparently coined by novelist Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep (1939).
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